Of all the Agile practices, none is more foundational than the inspect & adapt cycle of the retrospective. Even if you struggle with every other aspect of Agile, if you consistently engage in productive retrospectives, you will get better.

Industry surveys and studies suggest that 80% or more of Agile organizations have at least some distributed teams. Most of the traditional retrospective methods assume that all team members are co-located.

Running effective retrospectives for distributed teams presents unique challenges, but also, potentially, some great advantages. In this webinar, Agile coach and Instant Agenda co-founder Michael Ball-Marian will discuss the three greatest challenges to running distributed Agile retrospectives and how to solve them. Michael will share a variety of tips and techniques that you can use in any retrospective, co-located or distributed. Finally, he’ll present a few ways in which a distributed retrospective can actually be better than a co-located one.

Industry expert and ProjectManagement.com contributor Andy Jordan was recently told by a client that today’s fast paced business environment makes product roadmaps redundant. That inspired him to develop this webinar where he chats with CA’s Jim Tisch to explain:

•Why product roadmaps are more important than ever in an agile operating environment
•How roadmaps can be leveraged to develop proactive solutions that guide industry trends
•The importance of integrated product and project portfolio management
•The need for active roadmap management across the entire product portfolio

This webinar will not only challenge your assumptions on modern business management, it will provide you a tangible action plan to improve your success through better product roadmap management. Don’t miss out, sign up today.

Every organization undergoes different pain points during their agile transformation.

We've been a part of many of those transformations, and our experts can offer insights and best practices for your organization to overcome those pain points. Join CA's Senior Director of Agile Management, Doug Dockery, agile coach and co-author of Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization and resident agile expert, on Tuesday, March 13, for your opportunity to ask the questions on your mind as your organization starts, expands and scales agile across multiple teams and departments.

Business leaders everywhere are plotting out their digital transformation strategies, and how to get closer to customers - fast. In the second part of this webinar series, guest speaker, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Jeffrey Hammond and Laureen Knudsen, Agile Advisor, Executive Management, at CA Technologies, will expand on their February 6th discussion and take the conversation straight to the C-suite:

During this webinar, they’ll discuss:
-Why scaling agile is a top transformation priority to optimize software delivery processes
-How to use predictive planning to better prepare your organization’s delivery efforts
-Effective measurement using agile software with automated data roll-ups that show how and where your dollars are spent
-Exactly how organizational transformation occurs beyond the dev teams
-How an agile transformation can reduce the stress of constant requests and pressures felt at the executive level
-The role modern technology platforms and tools play as complements to your process improvement efforts

Ultimately, the goal of an agile transformation is to provide your organization’s top-level of leadership the ability to see more of what is happening, so they can make critical business decisions that shape and steer the future of the digital enterprise.

Not that long-ago business transformation was a major, disruptive event that an organization went through every few years when it felt it had no choice. In this webinar industry expert and ProjectManagement.com contributor Andy Jordan is joined by CA’s Jim Tisch to discuss how today’s world of business transformation is very different. They’ll discuss:

If you feel as though your organization could be faster to respond to challenges, could do a better job of managing transformation or simply isn’t evolving as fast as it should, you cannot afford to miss that webinar.

A lot has been written recently about Agile expansion. That might sound scary when you are still new to Agile and might only have a few teams onboard. However, it is still important to start thinking about how you envision Scaling Agile and incorporating your business strategy.

Industry expert and ProjectManagement.com SME Andy Jordan believes that even for someone who is early in their agile adoption, it is essential to understand the concept of business agility.
Join Andy for this high energy, thought provoking webinar to learn:

-Why business agility matters and why you need to care about it
-The role of strategic agile models in supporting your agile success
-The importance of broadening Agile across multiple departments

In today’s business world every organization has to be able to react quickly and with minimal disruption to the inevitable changes they face. Business agility maximizes your ability to do that. Start improving things right now by signing up for this webinar.

Every organization undergoes different pain points during their agile transformation.

We've been a part of many of those transformations, and our experts can offer insights and best practices for your organization to overcome those pain points. Join Laureen Knudsen, co-author of "Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization" and resident agile expert, on Tuesday, February 13, for your opportunity to ask the questions on your mind as your organization starts, expands and scales agile across multiple teams and departments.

Business leaders everywhere are plotting out their digital transformation strategies, and how to get closer to customers - fast.

But there's a looming challenge: Real digital transformation requires fast, sweeping modernization of development culture, processes and old systems into new cloud-based systems that are agile, mobile, and able to deliver disruptive, real-time intelligence. Without major changes in your development shop, a digital transformation will struggle to take hold.

In the first part of this series, guest speaker, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Jeffrey Hammond and Laureen Knudsen, Agile Advisor at CA Technologies, will introduce a framework to guide your development shop transformation, with best practices that put the customer at the center of software delivery efforts.

We'll discuss the cultural, structural, and talent acquisition processes firms are using as they refashion how their development teams gear up for faster delivery. In particular we'll look at changing organization structures, how teams are scaling up Agile delivery, and integrating Agile practices with customer-focused experience design practices.

In today’s fast paced modern business management environment the need for the right project portfolio management or PPM software solution has never been more important. However, many companies are still not viewing these platforms as part of the strategic infrastructure that drives success, and that’s a big problem. Join industry expert Andy Jordan and CA’s own Jim Tisch as they discuss the issues including:
•Why decisions must be driven from the top down
•Why cost alone is an irrelevant and misleading factor in choosing a solution
•The role IT does – and doesn’t, have in the decision-making process
•The importance of a partner over a vendor
•Measuring and managing the return on your PPM investment
An organization won’t succeed simply because they choose the right tool, but they may well fail if they commit to the wrong one. Don’t miss this thought provoking webinar and give yourself a significant advantage in the battle to deliver consistent success.

No two Agile adoptions are ever the same, but there are a number of common areas that can cause problems. Join industry expert and Projectmanagement.com contributor Andy Jordan as he highlights 7 challenges organizations often face.

In his usual upbeat style Andy will:
-Help you plan to prevent the challenges from affecting you
-Identify the early warning signs that things may be going wrong
-Give you tools to prevent thing getting worse and help you learn from the experience

As Agile becomes ever more critical to business success you can’t afford to fall into expensive traps on your Agile journey. Sign up for this webinar today and learn how to give your organization a path to success.

Businesses waste millions of dollars annually on employees participating in ineffective meetings. Yet, the waste continues to fly under the radar of executive leadership teams despite losses in operating expenses and productivity.

In this webinar we will present a framework for running highly productive, effective meetings that any organization can adopt. Specifically, we'll take a closer look at what are generally referred to as “issue clearing” meetings.

Every organization undergoes different pain points during their agile transformation.

We've been a part of many of those transformations, and our experts can offer insights and best practices for your organization to overcome those pain points. Join CA's Senior Director of Agile Management, Doug Dockery, agile coach and co-author of Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization and resident agile expert, on Tuesday, January 16, for your opportunity to ask the questions on your mind as your organization starts, expands and scales agile across multiple teams and departments.

If your organization says it too large or has too many legacy systems to take on an agile transformation, this webinar may change your mind. We’ll dig into how the Mainframe Business at CA Technologies, the founding product of our 40 year old company, embraced the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) to help improve product quality, drive innovation, and create a culture of empowered teams.

Join Dean Leffingwell, Founder of Scaled Agile, Inc and creator of SAFe®, and Ashok Reddy, General Manager of the Mainframe Business Unit at CA Technologies, to discuss how traditional, mission critical systems, with little room for risk, can push the boundaries of scaling agile and be the leaders for transformation across an organization.

Since aligning 74 teams to the Scaled Agile Framework over the past eight quarters, the Mainframe Business Unit has:
•Shipped 56 new product releases with zero defects
•Reduced the defect backlog by 45%
•Reduced the support backlog by 44%
•Deployed 3 new, organically-driven products

Strategic Project Management or SPM shouldn’t be difficult. At the most basic level it’s about ensuring the projects we deliver help our organization to achieve its strategic goals and objectives. Yet consistently SPM fails to deliver consistent results. In this thought provoking webinar industry, expert Andy Jordan joins CA’s Jim Tisch to discuss SPM and understand some of the things that go wrong:

•Setting ourselves up for failure with the prong projects
•The focus on what instead of why
•Short term thinking in project execution
•Failure to ensure commitments are actually met

As 2017 draws to a close and organizations the world over commit to do things better in 2018 this is a webinar you simply can’t afford to miss. Sign up today and let Andy give you the tools you need to deliver on next year’s strategic objectives.

New product development or NPD has never been more important. In today’s technically driven corporate environment the ability to launch the right products, with the right market positioning, at the right time and at the right price point is critical. But how do organizations ensure they can do that consistently well? Join industry expert Andy Jordan and CA’s own Jim Tisch as they consider:

Lean Startup is a concept that has been around for some time, yet there remain many misconceptions. Lean Startup starts at the Portfolio level, and only by beginning at that level can you understand what needs to be created.

Join us on Tuesday, October 31, as Martin Burns, with CA Technologies, and Carl Starendal, with Scaled Agile, Inc, discuss the importance of building your Lean business case and the impact it has on creating customer satisfaction, with the latest release of SAFe® 4.5.

Learning Outcomes
1.Learn how to build a Lean Business Case.
2.Understand what MVP truly means.
3.Learn how to evaluate your MVP and determine whether to proceed or stop.

Lean Startup is a concept that has been around for some time, yet there remain many misconceptions. Lean Startup starts at the Portfolio level, and only by beginning at that level can you understand what needs to be created.

Join us on Tuesday, October 31, as Martin Burns, with CA Technologies, and Carl Starendal, with Scaled Agile, Inc, discuss the importance of building your Lean business case and the impact it has on creating customer satisfaction, with the latest release of SAFe® 4.5.

Learning Outcomes
1.Learn how to build a Lean Business Case.
2.Understand what MVP truly means.
3.Learn how to evaluate your MVP and determine whether to proceed or stop.

Why is there a such gap between what senior-level executives believe about business agility, and what their companies actually embrace? Join us for a webinar to find out why and learn how to help close the gap.

A recent CA-sponsored study on Business Agility throughout the Enterprise revealed that only 12 percent of organizations can claim their whole organization is on the path to business agility --- though more than two-thirds of survey participants agreed that agile organizations are better able to quickly respond to dynamic business conditions.

The survey also finds that improved Business Agility is expected to deliver:
•Better competitive advantage
•Higher customer satisfaction and retention
•Increased employee productivity and retention
•Reduced costs
•Faster time to act on new opportunities

Yet only 1 in 10 executives said they are leveraging the benefits of agile across their whole organization to achieve speed and responsiveness.

In this webinar, Doug Barth, founder of Gatepoint Research, will walk us through survey to share the following. Where has agility taken hold across organizations and what results can be expected? What departments are on the horizon to adopt agility and why? What are the biggest deterrents to adoption?

To help demystify some of the findings and provide guidance over potential hurdles on the path to business agility, he’ll be joined by Deema Dajani, a Senior Transformation Consultant from CA Technologies. Deema thrives on taking Fortune 500 companies through successful, large-scale agile transformations, and is on the business agility front lines every day working to close the gap.

Join us for a discussion on a modern capitalization framework to comply with the requirements of SOP 98.1. We will discuss a common-sense, risk-aware approach that works with any software development method for project-oriented work. Once capitalization starts, the PMO will need to be able to show evidence of appropriate financial controls over the project. In this webinar, seasoned PPM and strategy execution expert Donna Fitzgerald explains in detail a framework for modern capitalization. Join Donna to learn:

•Why the Modern PMO should be deeply involved in the portfolio process
•Why project managers need to understand what value their software project is designed to deliver.
•How to eliminate confusion around SOP-98.1
•How to understand capitalization from an accounting perspective

Gain key takeaways to apply in your organization today when applying best practices to software capitalization. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn best practices and recommendations to ensure your organization receives the highest possible value in the new world of digital business.

: It's not uncommon to hear about organizations struggling with Agile. Some companies are a year or more in and just aren't seeing the amazing results they expected. Some begin seriously questioning whether the investment has been worth it. While scaling Agile isn't easy, it is worth it.

• The obstacles they faced as they embarked on this journey and how they overcame them
• The benefits they are seeing almost two years later
• Their vision and roadmap for scaling agile further in their organization

Agile isn't effortless: it requires executive buy-in, cultural and behavioral changes and, ultimately, the desire to focus on customer value. But spend an hour with Jim and CA and we’ll help you demystify and simplify your agile journey, so you can get more out of it.

Join the CA BrightTALK Channel to learn how Agile solutions and services, and Project & Portfolio Management (Agile Management) can help companies plan, execute, and deliver more work, more rapidly. Our industry experts and featured analysts will delve into topics that matter most to PPM and Agile professionals and practitioners and will provide practical advice and tips on how you can gain business agility and use it to your advantage in the App Economy.

Some sessions are approved for Project Management Institute (PMI) Personal Development Credits (PDUs).